The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.§

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she ..

During one golden summer in 1928, twelve-year-old Douglas and his brother wander in and out of the lives of their elders.

George Eliot's final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search for personal and vocational fulfilment and sym ..

Mowgli, Balu, Baghira, Schir Khan – die Figuren aus Rudyard Kiplings „Dschungelbuch“ verzaubern nicht erst seit Disneys Zeichentrickklassiker ein Millionenpublikum und begründeten den Weltruhm des englischen Nobelpreisträgers. Neben den bekannten Ges ..

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Ein Mann, Exilrusse, versucht das wahre Leben seines Halbbruders, des Schriftstellers Sebastian Knight, zu rekonstruieren. Er besitzt nichts als ein paar Jugenderinnerungen, einige magere Informationen, eine intime Kenntnis der Knightschen Bücher – u ..

Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: ‚Of all my books I like this the best‘.Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its aut ..

‚It is only a bruise‘ A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident… One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste ..

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But ..

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover to tie in with the highly anticipated 2020 film adaptation. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been sho ..

Unmittelbar nach seinem Welterfolg Im Westen nichts Neues schrieb Remarque Erzählungen, die erst 1993 aus seinem Nachlass in dem Band Der Feind veröffentlicht wurden. Sie handeln von den Erlebnissen der Menschen, die der Hölle der Schützengräben entr ..